Testing Strategies, Test anxiety

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With these tests my goal is always to finish quickly because I will ruin my score if I overthink it. I think that I averaged around 40-45 minutes per exam. The only questions that I mark are computations or ones that are going to take more time. The only answers that I change are ones that another question explicitly gives the correct answer. I think it was on the Biology CLEP that it asked me to identify part of a plant and then four or five questions later had almost the same drawing with the parts identified.

Along those same lines I never try and judge my answer based on how I answered another question. This may sound strange but I devour a lot of information from many sources before an exam. A question that may seem to be asking the same may be accessing something in my head that I'm not aware of. I veiw the exams as "one answer at a time." Each source that I study hopefully gives me one more correct answer. So if two questions seem very similar or if they seem to be asking for the opposite I will not change a previous answer because of what I think is the right answer for the current question. I guess I figure that for these exams 50/50 is way better than 0 and slightly worse than 100. If it comes down to two or three questions I've not prepared enough...